Shirt cuff



Patented Mar. 10, 1925.

UNITED STATESA ELIZABETH B. MQKNIGHT, or OCEAN VIEW, VIRGINIA.

SHIRT corr.

Application led October 10, 1922. Serial No. 593,535.

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Be it known that I, ELIZABETH B. MC- KNIGHT, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Ocean View, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Shirt Cuffs, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

With shirts having soft non-detachable cuffs, as well as other shirts and cuffs, it is very desirable to have the cuffs clean: yet cuffs quickly and unavoidably show signs of use. For this reason, many expediente are adapted for protecting cuffs or for readjustingthem in such a way as to have only clean surfaces visible. Even the most widely known makers of high grade goods have adopted and spent large amounts in advertising such expedients.

The object of this invention is to provide shirts and cuffs, at low cost, such as allow repeated readjustment to expose in succession fresh surfaces, and to do this by simple readily embodied construction, such as lends .itself to ready washinO, easy flat ironing,

use with no linings, quick adjustment requiring no special skill, and pleasing appearance at all times.

In the accompanying partly d1agra1nmatic drawings:

Fig. l shows one broad face of a cuff blank.

Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same blank.

Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same blank partly folded, the folds being separate-d.

Fig; l shows the same blank further folded.

Fig. 5 is an edge view similar to Fig. 3 but with folds brought nearer together and vsewing indicated.

Fig. 6 is a side view with one flap folded inside the cuff body.

F ig. 7 is another edge view similar to Fig. 3.

Fig. 8 is a side view of the sleeve end and cuff as they appear in use.

In these figures the cuff blank and the complete cuff consist of a single rectangular piece of fabric X as wide as the circumferential length of the cud and substantially in length equal to siX times the width of the cuff, or consisting of equal areas A, B, C, D, E, F. This blank is folded transversely between the areas or sections C and.

D, and at the opposite sides of the areas C and D the parts A B, and E F, are folded back as shown in Fig. 3, andv their terminal ends are sewed directly to an vintel-posed sleeve G, without Wristband. None of they portions overlapped by folding are centrally, connected, but the lateral margins of A and F are sewed together without overlapping, and the corresponding margins ofvB andy C and of D and E are sewed together in like manner, as suggested in Fig. 5, so that the main body A, F, is provided with distinct flaps M and N.

Obviously these two flaps, v which` are double, can be folded back in either direction upon the body portion AF, or can be folded oppositely, as in Fig. 4. v

As the folds are not centrallyy united, either fiap M or N, as shown in Fig. 6, can be pushed or folded in the space between A and F and the other flap can be folded i' over upon the body A F, or O, Fig. 6. Button-holes pass through all the folds and register so that studs may .be inserted in whatever way the parts are folded; Obviously,

many fresh surfaces are available; Fig. 8 shows the sleeve and `folded cuff. From the description, it will be seen that none of the overlying sections are sewed together except that the sections A, .F are stitched to the intermediate sleeve and each pair of.

mg end margins sewed together as above set` sections, AF, BC, DE, has its correspondis ironed flat and when ironed consists of two layers of the fabric, usually without starch, but not necessarily so.

What I claim is l l. A cuff consisting of along strip of fabric approximately equal in width to the length of a cuff, folded on approximately equidistant parallel transverse lines to form sections of the sizev and shape of a cuff, the first and last, .second andv third, fourth and fifth sections being brought by the folding` into registering contact and each of these pairs of sections having its lateral end margins only sewed together, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A cuff consisting of a fabric strip, the length of which is approximately a multiple middle, having its end lmargins sewed 'to a sleeve and its lateral registering margins sewed together/to 'a zeuffs width fromy the y sleeve, its middle mold carried'baok, .between adjacent portions of fthe strip,v to the line between the terminals of the sewingnniting said lateral margins. Athereby forming Y'flaps projecting beyond said line, each flap hay? ing its .registering lateral margins, only, seWed together. l

3. A entf consisting ot a rectangular fabrio'strip equal' in Width to the length .of a ouflf,folded transversely von approximately equally spaced parallel lines at a Cuffs Widthv apart, to form an 'even number of sections approxi-mately equal in Width and vlength yto a mutt, the terminal margins ofk ythe strip. being fsewed y,to aV Sleeve and the registering- .lateral .margins being Sewed togetherl to a distance. :trom .the Asleeve .equal to a cufts Width', each two succeeding pairs of sections being folded together and having their lateral registering margins, only, served to- ELIZABETH B. MCKNieHT) 

